Title
Regional Public Safety Common Operating Platform
Description
This report provides the Public Safety and Veterans Subcommittee with an overview of the Regional Public Safety Common Operating Platform.
Report
Summary
The City of Phoenix Homeland Defense Bureau (HDB) is comprised of four distinct disciplines: emergency management, fire service, law enforcement, and public health. The Homeland Defense Team is responsible for coordinating the City's efforts to detect, prevent, and respond to emergency incidents and to plan for and manage large scale events in Phoenix. Previous efforts have included monsoon floods, power outages, and large public gatherings, such as the MLB All Star event, the College Football Playoff, and the Super Bowl.
Large events/incidents are complex by nature, and the more complete, accurate and timely information available to public safety officials, the more effective they can be managing the situation. In an effort to be as effective and efficient as possible, the technical capabilities of the City's Emergency Operations Center have been developed and refined over the past few years. One of the components under development has been a common operating platform that creates a unified operational picture for all four HDB disciplines. The electronic platform is to consume, and then display, data from a multitude of different feeds so the information can be viewed simultaneously in a geographic context. Being able to visualize the situation on the ground in real-time is critical for the management team.
Maricopa County officials are pursuing a similar capability and are also investigating the same geospatial system. Over the past several months, officials from Phoenix and Maricopa County have been in discussions on how to build a shared capability that can benefit both organizations. The platform would be used by public safety managers to track and manage assets in the field to enhance their efficiency, and thereby increase the safety of all involved.
In the current plan, the Esri ArcGIS data platform belonging to Maricopa County would be further developed by the Maricopa County Office of Enterprise Technology. In the initial phase, Computer Aided Dispatch and Automatic Vehicle Locator data from Phoenix Fire, Phoenix Police and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office would be consumed and displayed by the new platform. Over time, incremental improvements could bring in additional data sets, as well as feeds from other regional public safety partners, increasing the information available to all participants.
Concurrence/Previous Council Action
This item was approved by the full Council on Jan. 11, 2017.
Location
Citywide
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Milton Dohoney, Jr., the Police and Fire departments, and the Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.